Saturday, January 7, 2012

What can you do else than smile

I found myself in that vacuum right after the Christmas and New Year's events that we heard so much about. Even pork cracklings that turned out to be a very international thing after all, couldn't do much about that. As well as the thoughtful presents of our dinner guests, DVD's of "Marley & Me" and "Hachiko", in which I couldn't find a lot of happy endings. If you have seen them, you know what I mean.

Right after the New Year we hunkered down as a hurricane visited Northern Europe, which is very rare, leaving a trail of destruction, followed by floods due to the rain and the rising sea levels. Nobody was hurt and there was only material damage. But by now I was gasping after something upbeat.

When we went on our first dog walk after the hurricane I was looking at all the flooding and fallen trees, but Kenzo & Viva didn't let me dwell in those thoughts for too long. Where I see destruction, they see opportunity. Every flooded area was met with excitement to demonstrate the zoomies. Every fallen tree with jumping, hide-and-seek and some extra sniffing.

What can you do else than smile in the face of so much joy. Especially when you least expect it.

@TeganI don't think there are many people that can keep it dry when seeing Hachiko. It is an impressive story (maybe true, maybe a legend) of a dog that waited at the train station for his owner, a professor, to return from work. When the professor dies and doesn't return, Hachiko continues to wait on the station ...Although the story is great - isn't any dog story :) - the movie itself is very melodramatic and doesn't leave a lot to the imagination. And definitely not Richard Gere's best performance. Nonetheless I would recommend it to everybody just for the story in itself.